Employees clean Western Wall in Old City of Jerusalem

STORY: Employees clean Western Wall in Old City of Jerusalem DATELINE: April 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:00 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people praying at the Western Wall 2. various of employees cleaning the Western Wall STORYLINE: Employees on Sunday began to remove handwritten notes placed between stones of the Western Wall, a holy site for Jewish prayers, in the Old City of Jerusalem. Twice a year, ahead of the Jewish New Year and the Jewish holiday of Passover, the chief rabbi of the Western Wall and his team would clean the wall and gather notes left by worshipers to maintain the structural integrity of the wall. The tradition of placing prayers in the Western Wall has a long history. Each year, people from all over the world come to the Western Wall to place their prayers into the cracks of the ancient stones. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jerusalem. (XHTV)

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• ILEA001258768

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• 2023/4/03 00:00:00

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• Xinhua / Kyodo News Images

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